Events archive
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Danielle Lussier (Grinnell College, USA)
13 February 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
A key feature contributing to public support for Putin over the past two decades is high levels of trust in him as an individual. This trust has shaped patterns of Russian political participation and... Read more
10 February 2023 - 5:30pm
Start date: 10 February 17:30 End date: 10 February 17:30 Location: Mansfield College MANSFIELD PUBLIC TALK Presented in Association with AFRICAN STUDIES CENTRE https://africanstudies.web.ox.ac.uk/... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Thomas Hegghammer, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College
10 February 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Abstract: How did the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 affect the evolution of the transnational jihadi movement? The consensus view since the mid-2000s has been that the war fuelled militant Islamism... Read more
Kateryna Iakovlenko (Cultural Editor of Suspilne Media)
10 February 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dahrendorf Room
What does art during the war look like? How can we talk about trauma and resistance? Documentary and archival turns, as well as attention to topics of war, loss, and displacement in Ukrainian art... Read more
Professor Roland Dannreuther (University of Westminster), Dr Komiljon Karimov (Westminster International University in Tashkent), Dr Ahliddin Malikov (Westminster International University in Tashkent)
10 February 2023 - 11:00am to 12:30pm
Dahrendorf Room
One of the most significant developments in Central Asia has been the ambitious economic and political reform programme promoted by Shavkat Mirziyoyev since his accession to the Presidency in 2016.... Read more
9 February 2023 - 5:00pm
Start date: 9 February 17:00 End date: 9 February 17:00 Location: Latin American Centre and Zoom https://lac.web.ox.ac.uk/node/2928521
9 February 2023 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Start date: 9 February 14:00 End date: 9 February 15:30 Location: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College https://nissan.web.ox.ac.uk/node/2936176
Theodoros Rakopoulos (University of Oslo)
8 February 2023 - 5:30pm
Syndicate Room
The "Stateless Sovereignties" speaker series seeks to explore the concept and practice of sovereignty outside of its traditional euro- and state centric heritage and definitions, by inviting... Read more
SEESOX
Andi Hoxhaj (University College, London), Peter Walsh (The Migration Observatory, Oxford), Fabian Zhilla (Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime )
8 February 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
ESC Seminar Room
In person and online.
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
Helen Pfeifer (Cambridge), Andrew Hammond (Oxford)
8 February 2023 - 4:00pm
ZOOM
Register here Guest speakers Helen Pfeifer (Cambridge), ‘The Politics of Knowledge Transmission in the Ottoman Empire, 16th c’ and Andrew Hammond (Oxford), ‘Late Ottoman religious reformers and their... Read more
7 February 2023 - 5:00pm
Start date: 7 February 17:00 End date: 7 February 17:00 Location: Latin American Centre (1 Church Walk) and Zoom https://lac.web.ox.ac.uk/node/2949656
Professor João Costa, Education Minister, Portugal
7 February 2023 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
This seminar is part of the Education, Purpose and Human Flourishing in Uncertain Times research programme. Theme 3: History and Politics This series explores how we might better understand the ‘idea... Read more
European Studies Seminar
Tony Barber (Financial Times), Gavin Jacobson (New Statesman), Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute), Jan Zielonka (St Antony's College, Oxford)
7 February 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
ESC Seminar Room
On the occasion of the publication of Jan Zielonka’s new book The Lost Future And How To Reclaim It (Yale University Press, January 2023) The future seems increasingly uncertain. Our democracies are... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Professor Amos Morris- Reich (Tel Aviv)
7 February 2023 - 3:00pm
Seminar Room 1, St Anne's College Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Focusing on the relationship between Zionism and science in the first two decades of the Zionist movement, the argument of this paper is threefold. First, that a relationship was established with the... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Edward Anderson (Northumbria University)
7 February 2023 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
The political lives, identities, and influence of the Indian diaspora have been much discussed in recent years. This paper will contextualise current political trends within a longer historical... Read more